Modeling of Territorial and Managerial Aspects of Robotization of Agriculture in Russia

Yury B. Melnikov, Egor Skvortsov, Natalia Ziablitckaia and Alexander Kurdyumov
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Yury B. Melnikov: Department of Chess Art and Computer Mathematics, Ural State University of Economics, March 8 Str./Narodnaya Volya St., 62/45, 620144 Yekaterinburg, Russia
Egor Skvortsov: Department of Economics, Management and Law, Ural State University of Economics, March 8 Str./Narodnaya Volya St., 62/45, 620144 Yekaterinburg, Russia
Natalia Ziablitckaia: Department of Economics, Management and Law, South Ural State University, Pr. Lenina, 76, 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia
Alexander Kurdyumov: Department of Competition Law and Antimonopoly Regulation, Ural State University of Economics, March 8 Str./Narodnaya Volya St., 62/45, 620144 Yekaterinburg, Russia

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 14, 1-17

Abstract: In the context of a shortage of labor and objective patterns of the development of means of production in a number of sectors of agriculture, farmers are increasingly using robotics. Despite the presence of significant positive economic effects, the robotization of agriculture in Russia is carried out at a slow pace and is very uneven. This suggests that the robotization of agriculture is influenced by the socio-economic characteristics and characteristics of the regions. The methods are based on a systematic approach to research and an algebraic approach to modelling, which, in our opinion, is a system of several components. To build models, data on the introduction of robotics in Russian agriculture for 2006–2020 and the socio-economic characteristics of the regions during the period of the most intensive introduction of robots (2013–2017) were used. As a conclusion, it can be noted that the robotization of agriculture in the Russian Federation is at the implementation stage, which is confirmed by a significant spread in the correlation coefficient of robotization indicators and various socio-economic characteristics of the regions, including the share of organizations using the Internet, availability of road infrastructure, the share of the rural population in the regions and a number of other indicators. It is shown that, at this stage of the robotization of agriculture, the most important are the models of the management process, while the priority is the subjective component of decision-making about the introduction of robotics, both at the micro level and at the regional level. We have proposed models that reflect various aspects of the robotization process and three mathematical models for the implementation of the strategy are built, which form a model-triad. Three theorems on the existence of an optimal realization of the strategy are proved.

Keywords: mathematical model; algebraic approach; modelling; robotization; agriculture; territorial features (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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